Finance Manager – Music

Handle Recruitment

Finance Manager – Music

Are you a numbers guru with a love for beats, bars, and balance sheets? This cutting edge music company is on the lookout for a Finance Manager to join a growing team.

The Role

The Finance Manager is a management role focused on maintaining accurate, well-structured accounting systems, and through efficient management and control of company finances, influencing commercial dealings and business planning. The role includes statutory reporting and compliance work: ensuring that laws and regulations are followed and business taxes managed. This is a critically important role which underpins financial reporting and allows the Directors to make strategic and operational decisions.

The role also includes working with colleagues across the company as well as suppliers and customers, auditors and professional advisers, providing insight and advice on financial and commercial elements, deal making, efficiency, tax compliance and driving profitability.

Knowledge and Experience

To succeed in this role, candidates will possess and be able to demonstrate the following, with examples:

Experience

• Supporting and working alongside the management reporting function
• Financial accounting and bookkeeping, the work of a finance team, including sales, purchase and general ledgers, banking, currency management, hedging, payroll, sales taxes, corporate taxes
• Preparation of statutory financial statements, audit packs, and dealing with audit processes
• Compliance with rules, regulations, tax authorities in the UK and internationally
• Integrating systems, migrating systems and developing systems for new business channels
• Working with incomplete data, using estimates, working with live and non-static data
• Presenting financial reports to teams, interpreting commercial conclusions
• Supervising, teaching and training team members
• Working with entrepreneurs, owner managed businesses, and leaders in creative industries

Knowledge

• Recording, publishing and other music related contracts and processes of licensing music rights
• Music rights management, metadata, royalties, monetising of music exploitation
• Digital music and streaming services
• Commercial dealings between music rights holders, artists, producers, songwriters, promoters etc
• Music industry knowledge in general, including specialist genres, music communities, media landscape, developments business models and standard industry practices

Skills and Qualities

• Honesty, commitment, loyalty, self-motivation, confidentiality, maturity, flexibility
• Ability to work alone, equally as within a team dynamic at all levels of seniority
• Comfortable managing upwards, presenting business cases to leaders, responding positively to challenge and sometimes pressure
• Determination to achieve targets and goals
• Desire to maintain the highest quality standards
• Aptitude and enjoyment from organising and analysing minutely granular data accurately
• Interpreting trends in data, and drawing commercial conclusions and recommendations
• Recognising that contributing to the success of the business is not only rewarding but also offers opportunities for personal growth, skill development, and career advancement.

Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds – we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.